Educational punishment is a way for schools and teachers to manage, punish or correct students who violate rules and regulations for educational purposes, so as to urge students to take warning, understand and correct wrong educational behavior, make it clear that educational punishment is not punishment, but education, and emphasize the educational nature of educational punishment, which is a concrete way for schools and teachers to exercise their educational rights, management rights and evaluation rights.

The meaning of educational punishment

Educational punishment is a special way of education, and its purpose is to promote students' progress. In disciplinary activities, means and purposes coexist. Teachers often exert some influence on students' body and mind, making them feel right and wrong, honor and disgrace, pleasure and pain, thus stimulating their repentance, achieving the purpose of correction, and thus bringing educational effects.

The Trial Rules for Disciplinary Actions in Primary and Secondary Education will be implemented on March/October, 2002 1 year, and the ways of disciplinary actions in education are also clearly defined. Teachers must make it clear that education punishment is not a punishment, but a way of education.